He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.

Humanity reaches to its full development with beauty of thoughts and deeds

She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a...

To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her ‘attractive’ would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.

I love who I am. I am beautiful creation of God.

Things are beautiful when they’re allowed to be free.

Go ahead and point out my flaws and weaknesses to me. In doing so it’s just something to get excited about! Knowing there’s a flaw that my Heavenly Daddy wants to make beautiful is rather...

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an...

[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me...

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn’t let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I saw wild, dangerous beauty. I saw devotion. I saw you.

Beauty doesn’t die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.

Pippa’s laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. ‘Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It’s a misery. I wish I were someone else.

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...

Beauty is a creature which lives everywhere: Under the ocean, above the clouds, even in the remote deserts! Wherever the ugliness may be on this universe, beauty will also be there giving hope to our...

…when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color …

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They...

Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

The beauty of the current approach to school bus safety … is that it doesn’t require kids to do anything but be in their seats. If you introduce seat belts, there has to be someone...

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo,espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunquecambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo...

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace...

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don’t know. Our journey is to love it all.

There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she...

One no more owes one’s beauty to a lover than one’s wit to an echo

Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy are nothing but dead-letter nowadays? It is because they have severed themselves from life. In Greece, ideas went hand-in-hand with life; so that the artist’s life...

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words....

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you; that everybody is impressed in your favor and inclined to be of your opinion; that you have...

The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum,not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

She is a beautiful recipe of so many wonderful things.

If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things,And imposes a name on things.

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for...

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way.